Caribupdate Weekly, Editorial February 26, 2015 For Grenadians and other Caribbean nationals who have been celebrating last Decemberâs announcement of plans by the US and Cuba to normalize relations, taking it as a sign of the end...

Santo Domingo.â After spending two days in Cuba, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat legislators met Friday with President Danilo Medina to talk about migrants' human rights among other issues.Pelosiâs...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Â Â Â Â United States Vice President Joseph Biden thanked the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for its âencouragementâ to his country to âmake

It has been more than a month since Barack Obama announced his intention to normalise America's diplomatic relations and, where possible, use his executive authority to end the trade embargo on Havana.

Despite stiff opposition from hardline critics in Congress, President Barack Obama has made good on his commitment to ease US economic sanctions against Cuba. On Thursday the Treasury and Commerce Departments issued sweeping new rules,...

MIAMI (AP) - Driven by fear that their window is closing, the number of Cuban migrants attempting to reach the US illegally in rafts has surged since the two countries announced they would restore diplomatic...

MIAMI (AP) â Driven by fear that their window is closing, the number of Cuban migrants attempting to reach the US illegally in rafts has surged since the two countries announced they would restore diplomatic relations after 50...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) â US exports to Cuba hit one of their lowest points in a decade last year, a demonstration of the longstanding barriers to trade that will hamper President Barack Obama's recent move to expand ties, new figures...

DEAR EDITOR, The year 2014 was quite an eventful year, both locally and internationally. The year ended with a decision by US President Barack Obama to normalise relations with Cuba which effectively brought to an end over five decades...

WHY DO REGIONAL commentators fail to give the reason that âthe Cuban-American lobby in the United States (which) is large, wealthy and well organised, has repeatedly articulated its preference for the...

TODAY is the 56th anniversary of the overthrow of the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba by Fidel Castro and his militant supporters on January 1, 1959. It signalled the end of the tyrannical Batista dictatorship. It also signalled the...

BARBADOS AND CUBA are seeking to deepen their collaboration in sports and culture.Â The proposed approach was discussed during a courtesy call on Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth Stephen Lashley,...

Dear Editor, May I wish all in the homeland the best in the New Year. May I share with your readers a compliment to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Rashleigh JacksonâsÂ letter regarding the role of LFS Burnham and...

Although a new era of relations between the United States and Cuba came as a surprise to many, President of the Guyana Cuba Solidarity Movement (GCSM) Haleem Khan said he always contemplated that good sense would have prevailed between...

(CNS): Throughout 2014 over 90 people living in Cayman have contracted the mosquito transmitted chikungunya virus with most of them picking up the illness in regional countries. Public health officials said they received two further...